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What is Culture?

Culture is the entire collection of behaviors, attitudes, ideas, and traditions of a particular group of people or society. These […]

A curvilinear relationship is when one variable increases another does as well, but at one point it stops, and only

In terms of memory, any information that our minds try to process and store in our brains goes through a

In psychology, reflection is when a therapist reflects back the patient’s words toward them. Think of the famous notebook a

Labile affect is a mental disorder where a patient shows extreme displays of emotions or incorrect emotional responses to a

Organic solidarity is the idea that as a society advances in complexity and industrialization, the interdependence among people greatly increases.

In psychology, shape constancy is our perception of objects having the same shape no matter what angle we can see

Dishabituation is when an organism responds to a stimulus it’s used to as if it were once again brand new.

Sampling bias occurs when the sample of a population in an experiment is not truly representative of the entire population.

Incentives are stimuli in our environment that motivate us to perform actions. They can, of course, be both good and